This is the information page about the shipwreck Highcliffe, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 60 19.1 N,1 39.696 W (60.183633333333, -1.68965)

The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English 🇬🇧, as they are prepared by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) based on data from UKHO and the hydrographic services of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, among others. They include the known details of the wreck and the comments of the cartographers who have checked the position and condition of the wreck over time.

Name: HIGHCLIFFE

Length 110.9 meter, width: 15.2 meter, draught: 7, tonnage 3847 ton
Load: ferrous elements and ores: unrefined and refined,ore

Cause: built by j readhead & sons. owned at time of loss by g.t. readhead & co. passage from narvik for immingham & methil. wrecked on forewick holm, shetland is. (dods). grounding caused by master apparently mistaking the neap of norby for fitful head. all 35 crew rescued by lifeboat. (shipwrecks of orkney, shetland and pentland firth). built in 1927, with 3 cylinder triple expansion engine and 3 boilers. steel hull. (sibi).

Year of registration: 1940

Water depth above wreck: 16 meter

Known since: 1940, last detected: 1992

Details measurements/cartography: H811/40 VESSEL ALSO REPD IN 601913N, 013950W. (WICK RADIO LERWICK N.O. IN C). 4.8.87 VESSEL SUNK IN 601908N, 013935W [OGB]. (AUTHORITY NOT STATED). NCA, EXISTING SCALES TOO SMALL. 16.1.04 GOOD DIVE WITH LOTS OF WRECKAGE REMAINING. LIES ON A SLOPE 6-26MTRS DEPTH, BOILER IN GEN DEPTH 12MTRS. STERN GUNWHALE RISES TO WITHIN 4-5MTRS OF SURFACE, WITH PROPSHAFT AT 20MTRS. BROKEN AMIDSHIPS. LOCATION DIAGRAM. (DIVE SCOTLAND, PUBLISHED 1992).
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 60 19.1 N,1 39.696 W

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